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...world's oldest question, Shirley has this and assorted other heart-tugging answers. But there is no need to feel sorry for her; she loves her work, and so does Director Billy Wilder (The Apartment). With his favorite writer, I. A. L. Diamond, and his favorite Apartmentmates, Jack Lemmon and Shirley, Wilder has turned the Paris-London-Broadway musical show of several years ago into a raffishly sophisticated screen comedy that makes streetwalking seem almost as wholesome as the 50-mile hike. The score has been reduced to background music, and Wilder has wisely done away with...
...going well at the Casanova Hotel ("They charge by the hour; nobody could afford to live there") near Paris' Les Halles. The girls are busy and happy, and Irma the Sweet is the busiest and happiest. Then disaster strikes. A new flic comes on the beat-Lemmon playing a flatfoot so square that he even pays for the apples he filches. He is scandalized by the hustlers' bustling and phones headquarters for a raid. Soon the arrondissement is ringing with the soldo, soldo, soldo klaxon of the police wagon, and the minuscule lobby of the Casanova looks like...
...nowhere, man, so Author Aldous Huxley, 68, posed a quaint 20th century dilemma: "What should poets do about nightingales"-now that ornithologists have shown that the nightingale sings mainly to assert that he has "staked out his territory"? This seemed strictly for the birds, which left Movie Actor Jack Lemmon, 38, to bring everyone back to earth with a few well-chosen words on Los Angeles architecture: "The fact is, 80 to 90% of it is terrible. It's the ugliest city in the world. It's like sitting in a garbage pail...
Days of Wine and Roses. Remick-on-the-rocks with a twist of Lemmon is the recipe for this effective temperance lesson...
Days of Wine and Roses. Remick-on-the-rocks with a twist of Lemmon is the recipe for this effective temperance lesson...